You’ve written your best work yet! The world you created is brimming with unique details, and the relationships between your characters are as complex as those in real life. You are passionate about your story and its characters—and rightly so.
But have you considered how readers from diverse backgrounds, experiences, or communities might interpret your writing?
What if, despite your best efforts to be inclusive, an insensitive portrayal or harmful stereotype found its way into your manuscript?
Now, readers are hurt and have no qualms leaving crushing reviews. All that hard work—and then this! You might as well give up. 😭